Windows 10 Sleep Issues on Desktop PC

[Gerb95]

So about a 2 months ago I upgraded to Windows 10, and had a good amount of issues that I've fixed. However, in the last 3 weeks I've had an issue with sleep mode on my pc. When I put my PC to sleep, sometimes the monitor will turn off, but my PC will remain on (fans and LED lights) and the HDD light stays on. When it does this it becomes unresponsive and I have to full reset it to wake it up and that normally causes some sort of issue on the next boot, such as disk read errors were the PC has to repair something, to even one time getting stuck at the black boot screen , making me hard reset a second time. Any fixes that you guys know of?

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Please do try to change the Power Option of your PC.

- Click Start and search for Power Options.
- Click on Change plan settings next to power plan that is selected.
- Click on Change advanced power settings.
- Expand "Hard disk" and under "Turn off hard disk after" make sure that it's set to Never.
- Expand Sleep and make sure "Allow hybrid sleep" is Off and with "Hibernate after" set it to Never.
- Click Apply and OK then test it with Sleep Mode.

Hope this will help.

 

[Quest_Skyrim]

I hope this isn't considered a necroing of this thread, but I had today the same problem with waking up my computer from sleep mode. Computer went unresponsive on mouse and keyboard. Not even main power button on computer did anything to turn off or bring computer out of showing slider from lock screen. Only a hard reset did work and then I was meet with boot error message with code 0x00000e09. After some time computer would restart and went back to same message. Did pull USB plug from mouse and keyboard just to make sure it wasn't anything related to these devices.

In the end only hard reset would work to bring back computer to Windows Desktop.

From Laptop Nerds suggestion I would now think the main problem is how low power state on my (older) Samsung Spinpoint SP2504C hard disk isn't working properly when sleep mode are being activated (hard disk only rotate while in use and mostly for storage today). I use SSD for apps and OS, so boot sector to be read by Windows should be working even then.

A normal boot would force hard disk to rotate, but in sleep mode they will keep still which might be a problem for Windows 10 as it expect hard disk to be accessible. Waking up computer from sleep mode have worked until now, so can only guess that this might one reason why this have happened first now.

Is there any other solution outside of making hard disk work all the time, which setting "Turn off hard disk after" to "Never" would make them?

 

[wizz1432]

Hi,

Please do try to change the Power Option of your PC.

- Click Start and search for Power Options.
- Click on Change plan settings next to power plan that is selected.
- Click on Change advanced power settings.
- Expand "Hard disk" and under "Turn off hard disk after" make sure that it's set to Never.
- Expand Sleep and make sure "Allow hybrid sleep" is Off and with "Hibernate after" set it to Never.
- Click Apply and OK then test it with Sleep Mode.

Hope this will help.

It does help! Thank you a lot, Laptop Master!